OAKLAND — Alameda County broadened its moratorium on evictions Tuesday, extending protection to most renters during the coronavirus pandemic.

“There are things we are doing now that we would not typically do,” Supervisor Nate Miley said, referring to the health crisis. “And I think the same thing relates to this ordinance.”

In order to keep people in their homes, the temporary moratorium now bans not only no-cause evictions, but also most just cause evictions, where landlords could evict a renter for things such as non-payment or violating terms of the lease.

However, landlords still can evict people in some circumstances, such as for health and safety reasons, which can include criminal behavior, as well as if a landlord is going out of the rental business and plans to take the unit off the market.

Evictions because of COVID-19 infection are not allowed under the new ordinance.

The ordinance applies to all cities and unincorporated areas in the county. Supervisors decided that local cities with eviction moratoriums could not opt out of provisions of the county’s updated moratorium unless their ordinances offered even more tenant protections.

“I think (those cities) should have to clearly prove their ordinances are more strict not to be obligated under ours,” said Supervisor Scott Haggerty, whose district takes in Dublin and Livermore, as well as most of Fremont and portions of Sunol and the Livermore-Amador Valley area, before Tuesday’s unanimous vote to update the moratorium.

The board’s action Tuesday amended an urgency ordinance that it enacted March 24 that put a temporary moratorium on evictions because of the health crisis.

The updated ordinance will take effect immediately and will end within 90 days, or when the state lifts the emergency it declared March 4.

“It’s absolutely important that the county makes sure as many people as possible are not made homeless,” Leah Simon-Weisberg of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment told supervisors. “And it absolutely makes sense that when we are facing this kind of emergency, everyone enjoys the same kind of protection.”

The adoption of last month’s urgency ordinance, which put a moratorium on evictions to tenants, homeowners and mobile homeowners who are facing displacement because of medical issues or a substantial loss of income as a result of the coronavirus, was in response to the state declaring a public health emergency, as well as the county’s declaration of an emergency on March 10.

“No tenant should be evicted during this time of crisis,” Paola Laverde, chair of the city of Berkeley’s Rent Stabilization Board, told supervisors Tuesday.

While tenants who might be facing eviction will receive a temporary reprieve, they are still obligated to pay their rent.

Tenants will have 12 months to repay overdue rent, unless the tenant and landlord can come to a mutual repayment agreement.

Landlords also have the option of pursuing overdue rent as a debt via small claims court, a payment plan or garnishing of wages, according to Chris Bazar, director of the county’s Community Development Agency.

Both Miley and Haggerty said they were hesitant about including all evictions under the moratorium, but noted the regulations would be in place for just a limited time.

“We don’t want to enact something that could be overboard and have consequences in the future,” said Miley, whose district includes Pleasanton, Castro Valley and parts of Oakland.

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